James Jeffrey Roche

Poems (6)

• Andromeda

  They chained her fair young body to the cold and cruel stone; / The beast begot of sea and slime had marked her for his own; …

• My Comrade

  The love of man and woman is as fire, / To warm, to light, but surely to consume …

• The Fight of the “Armstrong” Privateer

  TELL the story to your sons / Of the gallant days of yore, …

• The Kearsarge

  in the gloomy ocean bed / Dwelt a formless thing, and said, …

• The Skeleton at the Feast

  We summoned not the Silent Guest, / And no man spake his name; …

• The V-a-s-e

  From the maddening crowd they stand apart, / The maidens four and the Work of Art; …